Velocity intends to be a game-changing venture-building space for all remarkable founders including those who identify with women, non-binary, racialized, and 2SLGBTQ+ communities. We are recruiting our first Equity in Entrepreneurship Council to discuss priority areas and take actions needed to ensure equitable start-up supports for founders of all identities.

Waterloo’s globally recognized startup program Velocity launched an initiative that aims to help new companies in the health-tech sector access funding and get products and services in the hands of those who need them.

Able Innovation’s robotic patient transfer platform has found a home in Ottawa.The company’s ALTA platform, which enables hands-free patient transfer, will be used at Saint-Vincent Hospital, a complex care unit of the Elisabeth Bruyère health network.

Over the course of the past year, Pronti AI has celebrated many milestones and continues to go from strength to strength.

Velocity alumni MappedIn raises $8.6 million Series A round. The company’s inception dates back more than a decade when CEO and founder Hongwei Liu was an engineering student at the University of Waterloo. Its beginnings were bolstered through $25,000 Velocity funding in 2011.

In addition to the knowledge and experience-sharing among current Velocity students and founders, Velocity staff is unique in the number of alumni who have returned to help students and startup founders accelerate their ideas and ventures.

With a week to collaborate and devise solutions to global food, health and energy problems, nine student teams from across University faculties presented their unique ideas to attendees and judges at Velocity’s Innovation Challenge finals and mixer at South Campus Hall earlier this week.

Velocity appoints Director of Incubator and Director of health to its leadership team as it continues to evolve to support the next generation of high-impact entrepreneurs.

Review of Velocity's growth to better serve founders and the start-up community in the years ahead.